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Summer begins with Start of Summer

chinadaily.com.cn
| August 14, 2025
2025-08-14

At the first solar term of summer, spring bows out, yet warmth delays its call. When greens outshine the fading red, seeds of spring swiftly grow. Song Dynasty (960-1279) poet Yang Wanli wrote in his poem The Little Pond: The little lotus bloom has just shown its tip slight; When all at once you see a dragonfly alight. Borne on the gentle summer eve's sigh, as the setting sun lingers, watch twilight fade like a lullaby. 


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